I read the article. Its absolutely ridiculous. It goes on to state the
various advantages of Linux as the advantages of Aryabhatt Linux. Extremely
misleading.
I know this guy Vishal Gupta (the 'creator' of Aryabhatt linux). He and his
tech (??) team have absolutely no clue about linux. They have made changes
to RH, some tweaking of perl scripts etc.
Heres something funny :
I met him and his team of techies (barf!!) at their stall in an expo at
World Trade Centre a few months back. His main techie had a MCSE badge on
his tie, and a CNE badge on his shirt !!
They had a machine running KDE. They were allowing visitors to kinda play
with the machine, and guess what, it had a root login !!
They didnt know how to network 2 machines. When i kinda pushed them, one of
the techies (the mcse chappie) made a brave attempt. First he fired up linux
conf. Stared at it for 6 and a half secs. Gave an arbit irq , hoped it would
work. After a couple of futile attempts he tried doing a few things to show
off his linux prowess !! He did 'ls' , 'cd' etc a few times. Tried to put on
a serious look on his face trying to say "hmmm ...wonder what the problem
is. Looks like i may have to rewrite the kernel code".
A very interesting and amusing thing that happened was, each time he wanted
to type a command, he would ctrl-alt-backspace, type a few commands, do a
startx and launch KDE again. I had to explain to him that one can launch
terminals from within the window manager as well.
Finally my patience started to deplete and it was kinda bordering on
non-existent, when i volunteered to network their machines. Suddenly both
the techies flared up, their ego kinda hassled, and switched off the
machines.
When i was talking to Vishal Gupta, in the first 3 secs i managed to figure
out the guy was clueless about linux !! I told him that his techies were
having a problem with configuring the network cards, and if he could explain
to them how its done. With a flushed face, he asked me if i could do it !!
Alas, it was time up, and the place was shutting down for the evening !!
I hope i get to meet him again.
On a serious note, i hope this blatent plagiarism (yes, thats what i'd like
to call it) is not detrimental to the growth of linux. And im really
surprised (and pissed) that BT has not even done a minimal research before
putting up the article. Shame !!
Cheerio,
Sagar.
P.S: Pls feel free to forward this mail to the concerned BT staffer !!
----- Original Message -----
From: Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: I-LUG BOM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 8:21 AM
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] aryabhatt
> Seen in Bombay Times, April 13 2000:
>
> "The first Indian operating system to be released"
>
> The article goes on to talk about a Linux *distro*, called Aryabhatt
> Linux, being released by Linux technologies "headed by Vishal Gupta and
> his team of programmers". The price seems to be Rs. 2100.
>
> I would write to the email address attached to the article, but I don't
> think that will help.
>
> Aargh!
>
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